The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

^ ;jk ^ f * ' iiVT r ^ \r> ,;« ^ ' T^vitTf ^Tfrv^ I. WUHLYM, MM? a* MoHENBT, HJJNOIS- sr* J. PROCTOR KNOTT ipoke in'Winches- , ter, Kv., the other d^r, utd in closing 14 turned to the ladies present and told "* them that he was too diffident to say to ••-% the men in his audience that he was a > oandidate for the Governorship, bat he ,| would whisper it to his fair hearers u a <1 secret, believing it to be as good a w*y ;"iaa heoould find for making it public THE thoroughness with which a * Oacftdi&n journal occasionally gathers the news may be inferred from this ' brief extrac^, from the Brockviile . Recorder of recent date: "The Govern- - or General's hair wants shingling. He »i passed west yesterday for Toronto and * we had a change to see the back of his o head only, and his hair is altogether too long." • • ^ - ; UNCLE SOLON CHASE, the redoubtable leader of the straightout Greenbackers •of Maine, is described by an Eastern paper as H a peculiar-looking person in 'his make-up; but the man who takes him for a fool is sadly mistaken. He • dresses for effect. He wears a white . .-.slouched hat, cowhide shoes, and panta- loons and coat sleeves much too short. - It is said that a large nose is a sign of > -character. If this is so, Uncle Solon has a good deal of character. His ^language is in keeping with his dress." PARIS expects some dfiy to become a seaport, even though it is far inland. The Seine is a tortuous and shallow •stream. Now and then, though rarely, tourists make the trip up the river from Havre to Rouen. It is proposed to ••dredge the channel deep enough for • ocean steamers all the way tip to Poissy, making thus a tidal basin 150 feet wide .and over 100 miles long. At Poissy the "bottom oi the river will then be fifty feet below its present level, that being "the amount of fall between that point •and the sea. From Poissy a series of locks will Bring vessels up to the walls l*of Paris. The cost of the enterprise is ^estimated at $50,000,000. WILLIAM NORTH STEUBEN, the son of Jonathan Steuben, the' Revolutionary •soldier, to whom Baron Steuben gave his name, is now living in Santa Clara -county, Cal., at the age of 74. The -original name of Jonathan Steuben is Arnold. Shortly after the treason of Benedict Arnold the Baron was review­ ing the regiment of which young Jona­ than Arnold was a member. Hearing by accident the name of Arnold he •called for the man who bore it, and, on seeing him, said: "Change your name, brother soldier; you are too respectable to bear the name of a traitor." "Whose ^naiue shall I take, General?" "Take any other--mine is at your service;" was the reply. The offer was at once ac- •oepted, and the first American Steuben wus ushered into existence almost by : accident./The present Mr. Steuben wasUtJm on the "Steuben Tract," in Oneida county, N. Y. Two DEVICES for overcoming the per ils of the deep, a steamship brake and a drag, have just been tested in Boston harbor. The. brake jftonsists of two large steel plates br fins, which are fastened to the stern of a ship and worked by chains running to the pilot house. By opening these fins the re­ sistance of forty square feet of steel is brought to bear on the momentum of the boat, and the' test showed that the checking force was sudden and irresisti­ ble. A steamer going at full speed was stopped within a space of ten feet. The drag is intended both to soothe troubled ' waters and to hold a ship's head against the wind during a gale. It is umbrella- shaped and made of strong canvas on •oak ribs. Inuring a blow the drag is dropped from the bows of a ship by a rope fastened to its center. It is claimed that this will keep the ship steady with lier head to the wind, while a bag of oil at the apex of the contrivance is to take the danger out of the billows. . . XflE ratifications of a convenltos^be- tween England and the Shah of Pel sia for the suppression of the slave- 4 traffic have been exchanged. By this agreement British cruisers will be per­ mitted to visit and detain merchant •vessels under the Persian flag engaged in, or reasonably suspected of, carrying slaves. If slaves are found on board the vessel and therein are to be taken before the nearest Persian magis­ trate for trial. If the vessel is con­ demned and sold the proceeds of the sale go to the Persian Government, and the slaves are to be transferred to the British authorities. Furthermore, "The Shah of Persia agrees to punish se­ verely all Persian subjects, or foreign- <ers amenable to Persian jurisdiction* who may be fonnd engaging in slave- traffic by sea; and to. manumit and guarantee the safety and proper treat­ ment of all slaves illegally imported-- that is to say, imported by sea into his I Majesty's dominions--after the signa­ ture^ the present convention." SIXTY MILLIONS of dollars was collect­ ed and paid by the Government of New York city during the twelve months . ending July 31 last. Although there is not much to be said for economv in management the finances of the citv are in much better shape now than thev were a few years ago. The debt has been steadily diminished from $114,948,-: , 611 in 1876 to $97,503,338 in 1882, and for the first time in thirteen years the* tax-rate of $2.25 per $100 will meet ex­ penses. This is due partly to increased real-estate valuation--now over $1,000,- 000,000--and partly to recovery from the effects of the Tweed ring operations. The East river bridge elephant cnts a considerable figure in the treasury ac­ counts of New York as well as of Brook­ lyn, and the two cities, which are paying $2,000 a day interest on the money they have put into the structure, are encoua- aged with the promise that, if Every­ thing goes well and every man con­ cerned does his best, completion will .be reached a year hence. The total <sost *fill be about $22,000,000, of which New York pays $7,000,000 and Brooklyn •15,000,000. THIS queer bear story comes all the way from California: Henry Flyijn, who reidea near Inskip, in that State, started one morning to take a horse to pasture, about two miles distant from the house, and, as his little girl seemed ftnxious to go, he put her upon the horse's back and let her ride a short distance, where he put fcer down and told her to ran home. He noticed that she continued standing where he left her, and, on looking back after going a little farther, saw her playing in the sand. He soon paased out of sight and was gone about an hour, expecting of course that the child would return to the house after playing a few moments, On returning home he made inquiry about her of her mother, who said she had not seen her and supposed he had taken her along with him. On gti£ng to the spot where he left her he saw huge bear tracks in the sand, and at once came to the conclusion that the child had been carried off by the bear The family immediately made search through the forest, which was grown up to almost a jungle, rendering their search very slow. All day these anx­ ious parents searched for traces of their child; nor did they stop when darkness came on, but remained in the woods calling the lost one by her njune. Morn­ ing came, and their search was fruitless. A couple of gentlemen 'who were travel­ ing through the mountains buying stock came to the house, and, being informed of the circumstances, immediately set out to find her. The gentlemen wan­ dered about, and as they were passing a swamp spot where the undergrowth was thick called the -child, or else they wer^ talking loud, when one of thea heard her voice. He- -then called her by name and told her to come out of the bushes. She replied that the bear would #iot let her. The men then crept through the brush, and when' near the spot where she and the bear were they heard a splash in the water, which the child said was the bear! On going to her they found her standing upon a log extending about half-way across the swamp. The bear had tindertaken to cross the swamp on the log, and, being pursued, left the child and got awa|g$s rapidly as possible. She had received some scratches about the face, arms and legs, and her clothes were almost torn from her body; but the bear had not ,bitten her to hurt lAr, only; the marks of his teeth being found on her back, where, in taking hold of her clothes to carry her, he had taken the flesh also. The little one says the bear would put her down lsccasionally to rest 'and would put his nose up to her face, when she would slap him, and the bear would hang his head by her side and«purr and rub against her like a cat. The men asked her if she was cold in the night, and she told them the old bear lay down beside her and put his "arms around her and kept her warm, though she did not like his long hair. She was taken hom$ to her parents. PAYING OFF THE DEBT. What the BqpatikM Party Is Dotaf To­ ward Extinguishing the Ntttoaal Indebt- [Washington Telegram.] . Under the administration of the pres­ ent Secretary of the Treasury! during the period of ten months, from Novem­ ber 1,1881, to the' 1st of the present month, the following^ reductions have been effected: Of the tnt«rest.-b«ftring debt...... .$129,OSS;000.00 Or the total debt, less cull In the treasury , . 136,608,394.94 Of the annual Interest charge 4,315,756.75 Under the administration of the Hon. Williann Windom during eight months the following were the reductions made: Of the interest-bearing debt 1106,206,350.00 Of the total debt, lees cash in the treasury 94,421,945.87 Of the annual Interest chance 15,883,692.25 This large reduction in "the annual interest charge was largely the result of the exchange of 6 and 5 per cent, bonds into bonds bearing 3^ per cent, interest. Under the four-years' term of the Hon. John Sherman, from March 1, 1877, to March 1, 1881, the reductions were as follows: Of the interest-bearing debt $36,762,800.00 Of the total debt, less cash in the treasury <...., 908,834,730.37 Of the annual Interest charge 17,557,708.00 ^ Prior to the 1st of March, 1877, and since the 31st of August, 1865, when the debt was at its highest point, the reduc­ tions effected were as follows: Of the interest-bearing debt $669,933,7*94.96 Of the total debt, le*a cash In the treasury ..." 733,881,035.88 Of the annual interest charge...... 56,574,052.37 During the entire period since the 31st of August, 1865, the debt has been reduced as follows: The interest-bearing debt has been reduced from $2,381,530,294.96 to $1,- 437,693,750x a reduction of $943,836,- 544.96, or 40 per cent. The total debt, less cash in the treasury, has been re­ duced from $2,812,662,178.82, estimating the interest due and accrued to the 31st of August at $56,230,707.49, which was the amount due and accrued on the 1st of July, 1869, when the interest was stated as part of the public debt, to $1,- 658,926,171.96, a reduction of $1,153,- 736,006.95, or 41 per cent. The annual saving of interest payable on that por­ tion of the public debt bearing interest is represented bv the reduction from $150,977,697.87 to $56,446,488.50, a total of $94,531,209.37, or about 63 per cent. 1* BIEI IN ARKANSAS." Roast Wife for Dinner. In the burning days of summer a far­ mer linds work in the sweltering heat 9 burden hard to be borne; but if he would find "beneath this lowest deep a lower deep," let him enter his kitchen at 11:30 in the forenoon. This room is usually itf "the wing," and has no air chamber in the shape of an upper room to interpose a shelter from the sun, which beats on the roof till it is hot enough to hiss if sprinkled. A «uo- loek of a stove adds its heat to this oven, in which the house-wife "lives and moves, and has her being," and over it she stands attending to the mul­ titude of hot dishes which are supposed to be the necessary ingredient of a en folks" dinner. Her head seems Inirstmfc and her. limbs strengthless from the heat, yet she sticks to her post, a martyr to custom, nor is the martyr­ dom always confined to herself alone. Who can tell how many nursing babies haye died from diseases brought on by this over-heating of their unfortunate mothers. But this must go on forever; for who would dare to set*a cold din­ ner before a maU ? : Why not? If you have meat to roast or boil, put it to cook in the morning while getting breakfast, and with good bread and butter, fresh salads and fruit, any man or set of men ought to be sat­ isfied. Custard, blanc mange, boiled rice and corn-starch puddings can be prepared in the morning, and are health­ ful and palatable. A potato salad is an agreeable addition to such a dinner. Boil your potatoes in their jackets, and take them off the very second they are done, before they crack open; peel and cut them in very thin slices; put a layer Ui a dish and sprinkle it while hot with vinegar and butter heated together; shake over a little pepper and salt, and repeat with eaeh layer until the dish is filled. The potatoes if ripe and good to begin with, will not be heavy when cold. The heat of the hay and harvest field is necessary and unavoidable, and is endured in out-door air, but that of the kitchen ean sometimes be dispensed with and no disadvantage result to any one. --Helen-Youiig Baily. 4 IT has been found that sparrows will eat caterpillars. They dislike the hairy covering, and now careful experiments have proved that a sparrow will gobble up caterpillars just as fast i%a man can akin them. [From the Detroit Post.] "Blessed are they who expect noth­ ing, for they shall not be disappointed." The Republicans did not look for much consolation from the election in Ark­ ansas on Monday, for since the bull­ dozers took possession of that State in 1874 it has been carried by the Demo­ crats, whenever any opposition at all has been made, by a majority averaging about one-fifth of the entire vote. It has been understood that they would easily enough elect all the State officers this year, and a Legislature that would send Senator Garland back to Wash­ ington for another term. It has tinned out that Col. Slack, the Republican candidate for Governor, ran with unex­ pected strength in region? where he was best known, and that in some local­ ities where quiet and fair elections were held the Republicans have elected a few county officers, and there is a possibility that the Prohibitionists have carried Sebastian county against license, in which event the saloons at Fort Smith--the only place in the county where liquor is now sold--will lie closed up. The g'eneral result, however, is not different from what was anticipated. It would seem that in Arkansas, if anywhere, the Democrats might get along without seeking to intimidate Republican voters; and yet the reports from Helena are laden with a most out­ rageous case of bulldozing. Gen. M. L. Stephenson, ex-Judge of the Supreme Court, telegraphed from that town on election day as follows: *• " The Court House was taken last night, locked arid guiarded. This morn­ ing judges were elected inside. No one outside was allowed to participate. Side polls were" prevented by the vio­ lence of armed men at the polls. Men distributing tickets were knocked down and driven away and the tickets taken from them, voters were driven off, and substantially no voting was done any where in the city after 9 o'clock. One colored man was shot at three times by a Deputy Sheriff. This so terrified the others that they would not try to vote." ' Phillips county, in which Helena is situated, has a Democratic County Judge named Sanders who was himself a candidate for the office Of Circuit Judge, and whose election depended upon preventing in some way a full Re­ publican vote. As County Judge lie arranged the voting precincts in July last, and pnt them in such shape that about 1,300 voters, of whom 1,200 were Republicans, mostly colored, had to travel ten or twelve miles to reach the polls, and then all vote at the Court House. Sanders also appointed as judges of election two live Democrats and a colored Republican who had been dead for two years. The vacancy was filled, not "by the voters assembled," as the law requires, but by a little fam­ ily arrangement inside the barrier. In 1878 no Republican ticket was nominated in this county, because the Democratic shot-gun policy prevented, ind in 1880 again the Republicans pru­ dently kept out of the field. Some weeks ago Gov. Churchill expressed a desire that, for the good name of the State, the Republicans should be allowed to vote, and it was partly on ac­ count of his assurance of fair play that the leading Republicans of the county decided to move. They give the Gov­ ernor credit for good faith, for he took pains to sendover his Private Secretary and Adjutant General a fortnight ago to receive the assurance of the Demo­ cratic County Committee that no intim­ idation or falsification of returns should be allowed, and as late as last Fridav he expressed his disbelief in the possibility of violence, and afterward telegraphed to Capt. Barlow, of the Phillips county militia, to be prompt in assisting the civil authorities to prevent disturbance. The local Democratic managers, how­ ever, failed to keep the pledges they had so freely given. At 7:45 a. m. the polls were opened, only two or three voters being admitted through the two doors of the Court House at a time. As they passed along the corridor they handed in their bal­ lots through a small hole high up in one of the doors opening from it-^-so high that they could not see the ballot deposited in the box. The lrfw requires the name of each voter to be written in a book with a number opposite corre­ sponding with a number written on the back of the ballot. To prevent a tally being kept outside, the numbers used were not consecutive ones, so that no­ body oould tell, even if he knew the number that was put on a ballot, how many votes had been actually oast. Anticipating some game of thi< kind, the Republicans h&d prepared ballots with "stubs." like those upon bank checks, which were torn off and retained by the ticket peddlers, who stood by the door and gave out the bal­ lots to the Republican voters as they went in, writing each voter's name on the "stub." In this way a record was made of the exact number of Re­ publican votes that were received. After the voting had gone on quietly, though slowly, for about an hour, the Democrats concluded to put an end to the balloting, which was clearly being conducted in a way to frustrate all their plans. The onset, alluded to by Gen. Stephenson, is thus described by a cor­ respondent of the St. Louis Globe- Democrat : "One of the distributors was stand* ing near the south door of the building, holding in his left hand a book on which he wrote the names on the coupons, and a pencil in his right, when he observed that several whites had come out of the building and were making for him. One of them caught his left arm, another his right, and one searched his pockets. One was nearly half full of coupons. All of these were taken away, and with them his pocketbook, etc., everything but the coupons being afterward returned. The next thing he knew he was struck on the head, his hat knocked oft', and he was forcibly kicked twice. At the other door the same performance occurred. All the distributors of coupon tickets were fotced to give them up. Finally the Deputy Sheriffs and others, some flourishing their revolvers, scattered among the crowd ordering it to dis­ perse. The frightened negroes natural­ ly did so. and half aa hour later very few of the 1,000 or more blacks entitled to vote there were within half a mile. The intimidators then went to the Helena City wards and compelled those" who liad coupon tickets to give them up. At these there was no pretense of driving off voters, but very few ap­ peared." Thus ends another chapter in tho history of shameless Democratic elec­ tion frauds in Southern States. AGRICULTURAL. "The Bloody Shirt." ' A Republican .candidate for Congress protests against any more waving of "the bloody shirt." He insists that all the gore is dry, and that we may now wash that garment in the limpid water of brotherly love, fold it up and put it away forever. The bloody" chasm, he says, has been filled. It is true that old sores ought to be wiped out and old wounds allowed to heal. We wish it were also true that no fresh blood stains oould be founds but such is not the case, unfortunately, and so long as outrages upon the blacks of the South are being perpetrated, it will not do to ignore them on any pretext whatever. The report of the committee appoint­ ed by Congress a few years ago t<!| in- j vesti'gate the Kuklux outrages fills tliir- I teen portly volumes. These books* are j a horrible revelation. But in all those | pages can be found nothing quite so j diabolical as the hanging and torture ! of colored Republicans in Choctaw! county, Ala., less than one month ago.! The particulars are before us, authenti­ cated and indubitable, .p* S^or several years the colored voters of Alabama have !>een so terrorized that only a very few of them dared vote j against the Democracy. But at an ! election held al>out a month ago many j of them plucked up courage to cast 1 their ballots for the opposition. Six j counties were redeemed, Choct iw being i ajnong the number, and in several other ' counties the Democratic majority was nearly wi]>ed out. The Bourbons were I frightened. They feared that their | political supremacy was in danger, and j they were right about it. The State of j Alabama wou'd be Republican upon a fair vote, and the bulldozers were reas- | onably alarmed lest their usurpation 1 should be overthrown. That apprehen- , sion, and that only, explains the hang- j ing of Jack Turner. Chairman of tlio , Republican County Committee, at But- i ler, .Choctaw county, ' Aug. 19. I Six ; other less prominent but active Repub­ licans were subjected to the most cruel torture by the same brutal mob, consist­ ing of about, 1,000 persons. The pre­ posterous charge trumped up agiinst these colored Republicans was that they had conspired to massacre the white population of Butler, Mount Sterling, j De Sotoville and other places, the con- j spiracy having been formed as long ago ' as 1878. The charge was utterly with- 1 out foundation, an invention of politi- I cal desperadoes, gotten up to serve their diabolical purpose. ^ So long as Southern Democrats per­ sist in dipping the "shirt" in fresh blood, so long will -the Inter Ocean continue to expose and denounce them. We harp upon no old issue, but submit that the time will never come when frood citizens can afford to wink at or shut their eyes upon murder and torture committed in the interest of a political party. Even if no outrage of the kind had been committed it would still bo true that what is called the bloody-shirt issue would be a vital one to-day. It cannot be laid away in the grave untii a free ballot and a fair count obtain throughout the South. (Nor can the Republican party abandon its old line of battle on that"issue until such a con­ summation has been reached. Only then will it be true that the bloody chasm has been closed. Any abandon­ ment of the great principle of honest elections would l#; recreancy to the su- jMeme trust reposed by the country in the party of humanity land universal progress.--Chicago Inter Ocean. Hie Males at Pord Said. The northern harbor of the Suez Canal is formed by two mighty artifi­ cial moles or1 dams reaching 5,130 and 700 feet into the blue waterft of the liistorio Mediterranean Sea. These moles are made from tho "rocks of the desert," mixed with quicksand and lime, and, after being cut into blocks of thirty-two cubic feet dimensions and dried, were sunk to their places. A peculiarity of these moles is that they act like a sieve, through which the waters can penetrate, yet at the same time the power of the surging waves is broken upon them. The current of the sea flowing from the mouth of the river Nile in an easterly direction along the Egyptian coast, and carrying the eject­ ed sands and mud of the aforesaid Against the west of the moles at Port Said, was the means of forming what now is known asQuai Eugenie. Facing this quai, northward, are long rows of houaes--Port Said. The lighthouse ia at the mouth of the Suez CanaL ltoed Bma. Live Stock Journal fihat bran or ground feed is best fed to 00ws upon moistened hay; it being mixed with the hay, all will bo eaten together and raised and masticated- But if it is not fed with cut hay it should be fed dry and in a small quantity each time,i for if fed alone it is not raised and mas­ ticated, but goes on to the third and fourth stomachs. If fed in slop it is swallowed without any mastication and mixed with little or no saliva, but if fed dry it cannot be swallowed until it is mixed with saliva, and the saliva assista in digestion. When food is masticated the act of rumination causes the saliva to flow and mix with the food. We have experimented and find that when fed alone dry ground feed is better di­ gested than when fed wet. Seed Potatoes. Tim Rural Neto Yorker gives the fol­ lowing yields per acre as the result of experiments with diffe rent seed pota­ toes : Whole potatoes, large, yield: ta­ ble potatoes, 149.2 bushels; small pota­ toes, 105.8 bushels; total, 255 bushels. Whole potatoes, small, yield: table po­ tatoes, 127.8 bushels; small potatoes, 65.15 bushels; total, 193.3 bushels. One eye to a hill, yield: table potatoes, 60.1 bushels: small potatoes, 24.9 bushels; total, 85 bushels. Two eyes to a hill, yield: table potatoes, 83.9 bushels; small potatoes, 39.9 bushels. Three eyes to a hill, yield: table potatoes, 105.7 bushels; small potatoes, 48.4 bush­ els; total, 154.1 bushels. Seed end yields: table potatoes, 114 bushels; small potatoes, 68.7 bushels; total, 182.4 bushels. Stem end yields: table pota­ toes, 90.7 bushels; small potatoes, 61.8 bushels; total, 152.5 bushels. Pump*. The patience of nearlv every one has been so severely tried l)v pumps that the sight of the word nearly brings on paroxysms. It matters not .whether iron or wooden, there is a radical defect in nearly all of them. The least defect in bucket or valves causes the water to run down, and the pump has to l»e charged before it will operate. It is often the ease that a pump in a stock- water well, at probably tlu> extreme cor­ ner of the farm, needs, every time it is visited to water stock, to have a pail of water carried a half or three-quarters of a mile to charge it. If one happens to be at work on that part of the farm he has to go to the barn or house before the pump will work. The same trouble has existed with pumps almut the house and barn for sixty-five years, to our rec­ ollection. Pumps are nearly always out of order. Thev are poorly and cheaply made, and sold at stiff prices. The only way to have pumps, and prevent good men from violating some of the com­ mandments, is to have the cylinder and lower valve down in the water of the well or cistern. Thenavour pump is al­ ways primed, even if there is a leak. In this way the water is lifted, not depend­ ing upon the pressure of the air to raise it. And with the knowledge and expe­ rience the world now has with cheap and worthless pumps it is time for sen­ sible men to refuse to buy any other kind, wood or metal. With the cylinder in the water pumps will last four times as long, and so long as there is a good fragment of them left they are ready to raise water. Buy only such pumps as have at all times the cylinder at the bot­ tom of the well in the water.--Dea Megmer. • • : Tile Drainage. There is no rule which will apply to all kinds of soil to determine the dis­ tance drains should be apart. The na­ ture of the soil and man's good sense must determine this matter. A loose, porous soil, the depth the tile is sunk, and the fall, enter largely into tlue ques­ tion. Into a drain in loose soil, or if it be a little sandy, the water collects from a long distance. In a tough, compact clay soil, impervious to water, drains are required to be much nearer. Gen­ erally in our Iowa prairie soil, with good fall, ten rods apart will do pretty well. But if it is stiff clay, or on black, sticky soil, the drains will have to be from folir to six rods apart. An eight-inch tile is considered large enough to carry off the water from fifty acres. It will discharge about as much water as an open ditch four feet wide and two feet deep. *In an open ditch the water is frequently impeded by grass and weeds. But a tile, if laid deep enough and each end well pro­ tected, is clear and the water is dis­ charged with great rapidity. We recollect some years since visit­ ing a farmer who said his tile drain was olfetructed. He ascertained as nearly as he could the location and he set his hands to work to dig down and ascer­ tain- the trouble. He found that tho bottom of the ditch was uneven in the hardness of the soil, that the end of one section of tile had dropped doM U past the end of the other. This gave the muskrats access into the tile, and sev­ eral of them had crowded in and died there, and thus obstructed it. This im­ presses the importance of having the tile laid on a solid foundation, and of th<' ends being crowded close together. When thus placed one end cannot fall without the other end drops at the same time. Trees should not stand near the ditch, as the roots, instinct with vegetable life, will seek water drains, and if the roots grow large will obstruct or displace the tile. What is called horse-shoe tile is worthless, as the crawfish will "soon fill it up. The longer the sections of tile the better, tfhe old length was twelve and one-half inches. The fifteen-inch tile is far better. If it could be suc­ cessfully made and buried twenty inches long it would be better still, as then it could be laid with a tolerable certainty of being permanent. It will not pay to employ an engineer to grade the drain. A man of practical sense ought to be able to do it better himself. Water is a good leveler, and with the simplest implements the drain can be laid on a gentle incline ac­ cording to the fall of the ground. It should not have any place where it will have stagnant water, as in such case the sediment will settle, and in times of drought may bake and become immov­ able by water, and thus gradually fill up. Have at least a little fall for every foot of the drain. It is well for the farmer to do this himself, and thus probably make him begin to think and Btudv, and thus awaken an intellect that would afterward bless the world.-- J&w& State Register. BAISIK TARTS.--Take pie crust and out out with a biscuit cutter. Use two crusts to each tart. For inside one cup of chopped raisins stewed with one-half oup of sugar. EGG PLANT.--Peel, dice and boil till tender: mash and season with pepper and salt; roll crackers and stir into it until very thick; make into little pat­ ties and fry in hot lard. FLANNEL CASK.--TWO ounees of but­ ter, one pint of milk, hot; pinch,Qf salt, two table-spoonfuls of yeast. Melt the butter. Add flour. Let it rise in a warm place. Fry on a hot griddle. FRUIT PUDDING. -- One cup of mo­ lasses, one cup of milk, two eggs, one teaspoonful of soda, three cups of flour, one-half cup of melted butter, one cup of raisins, one cup of currants, Boil or steam three hours. FRIED CABBAGE. -- Gut very FTM a head of cabbage, salt and pepper it well. Have an iron kettle smoking hot; drop one table-spoonful of lard into it, then the cabbage, stirring briskly until tender. Send to table immediately. FRICASSEKD POTATOES.--Peel and slice the potatoes very thin, and Jet them stand in cold water one houre. Place them in a dish with salt, pepper and milk, and let them bake one hour. Then scatter over them small pieces of butter and serve. EGOLESS CAKE,--One-half cup of butter, one and one-half cups of sugar, one cup of sour milk, three level cups of flour, two teaspoonfuls baking pow­ der, one-half teaspoonful each of cinna­ mon and grated nutmeg, one cup chopped raisins. VINEGAR COOKIES.--One cup of mo­ lasses, one-half cup of sugar, one table- spoonful of ginger, one. table-spoonful «l vinegar, salt, two teaspoonfuls of bak­ ing powder. Bring the molasses to a boil, adding the other ingredients grad­ ually, then flour to roll thin. MUSTARD SAUCE. -- Take two table- spoonfuls of white sugar and mix thor­ oughly with one table-spoonful of pep­ per, two hard-boiled eggs, one cup of vinegar. Place on the stove, then add two well-beaten eggs. It is now ready to pour over the cabbage or lettuce. • BAKED CAULIFLOWER. -- Soak the cauliflower in salted water for one hour; look over carefully and remove the hard stalks and leaves; scald for five minutes; cut into pieces and put into a pie dish; add a little milk and season. Cover the whole with dry, grated cheese and bake. TEA CAKES.--Add to a quarter of a pound of butter a quarter of a pound of sugar and three eggs, well beaten, and sift in enoujgh flour to make a thin bat­ ter; stir till the batter is perfectly smooth and so light that it will break when it falls against the sides of the •bowl; bake in muffin tins and serxe hot. FIG PUDDING.--One pound of figs, chopped fine, one pint of grated bread crumbs, one cup of chopped suet, one- half cup sugar, one cup of sweet milk, three eggs, one teaspoonful each of cin­ namon and nutmegs. Dip a pudding cloth in boiling water and dredge it with flour; tie up tightly, leaving room to swell. Steam three hours. . What BMNMS ef the Old Meat Everybody knows the tendency that certain articles have to disappear. It , has been repeatedly asserted in countries rwliere they use donkeys that no one eVer sees a defunct ass. Again, that fa- THK Peoria Board of .Supervisors ex­ act $500 for liquor licensee in that county. SCARLET fever caused the olnfaf of the public schools at Stanford, MoLoui county. TWEXTT-ONB brakemen have recently been discharged from the Wabash rail­ road at Springfield. ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND postal cards were received at the Springfield poa^> office a few days since. W. H. FUNK, JR., a noted bee-keepcf of McLean county, estimates his honey harvest at 1,000 pounds this year. THE annual fair of the White County Association was by far the most success­ ful one held in Southern Illinois for several years. THE intended artesian well at Cairo is still in an uncertain state. It is down about 209 feet, and is still in a layer of white sand and gravel. THE coal-iie'.ds in Macoupin county are being rapidly developed. Minea are now operated in eight towns and cities, and three more shafts are sunk., „ CAPT. J. E. BOTNTOJT, of Jerseyville, became strangled while at dinner a few days ago, and in coughing ruptured a blood-vessel and came near bleeding to death. AT the JoKet rolling-mills James Furguson swung a ladle so carelessly as to ponr five tons of molten steel into the pit where he stood, roasting himself instantly. THE Centralia Sentinel says more nails were made in that city last week than ever before. Twenty-four ma­ chines, working eleven hours daily, ran out 2,435 kegs. The work still goea ahead. THE old settlers of Peoria eotinty held their annual picnic at Glendal* Park. The exercises were of great in­ terest and were participated in by a large number of persons from adjoin­ ing counties. WILLIAM YOUNG, aged 83 years, one of the first settlers in Sangamon coun­ ty, is still considerable of an athlete, and but recently won a wrestling match with a man of 24. At the Lincoln fair he ran a mile in five minutes. THE bank of J. B. Truner & Co., of Ewing, Franklin county, was entered by robbers a few nights ago, who made two attempts to blow open the safe, and finally succeeded in making off with $400. The noise awakened the clerk, who fined several shots at the robbers, but failed to hit any of them. After doing this work the thieves stole two horses and a buggy. STOCK of the Chicago and Eastern Hlinois road to the amount of $1,000,000 is said to have been recently picked up by the Louisville and Nashville interest, and it is rumored that in October an effort will be made toward the absorp­ tion of the former line by the great Southern monopoly, making Chicago its northern terminus, and giving the Northwestern metropolis another through route to the gulf, via Evans- ville, Chattanooga and Montgomery. A FEW years ago L. D. Hovey, who was then County Treasurer of De Witt county, became involved in an illegal j transaction in reference to the peopled I money that he had collected on taxes, {to the amount of $9,000, and refused to j turn it over to his successor, and there- I upon was declared an embezzler. Ho- : vey was sued, but was able to come out j "first best." owing to the fact that he | Bad not been sued until the statute of limitation had expired. He was again CJvid'V, - pst- by fir Irtvl "awful pause" at her own table, "What becomes of all the pins ? struck home i arrested on the charge of embezzlement to every feminine mind, offering bound- ! anj lodged in jail, but was soon after DOMESTIC ECONOMY, o 'PUDDING SAUCE.--Two cups of sugar, one cup of butter, two table-spoonfuls of vinegar, two eggs. Let it scald, but not boil. , less fields of conjecture. Mysterious, however, as the ultimate fate of pins undoubtedly is, it may l>e urged that their very simtllness favors their disap­ pearance, but this cannot be pleaded about old men, and the question we raise to-diy is, What becomes in this city of the old or elderly men? Old women we see in numbers, but not old men. Of course, \ve know that in bank parlors, trust companies' offices, and among the learned professions a certain number of elderly gentlemen may found, but we are speaking now of the many. Take, for example, waiters. How many gray-headed waiters does any restaurant 1 frequenter recall in this city ? In the street-cars there are about half a dozen conductors known to every one because they are white-bearded, and hence so rare, while the drivers are al­ ways men under 50, apparently--seldom, indeed, as much as 40. Walk altout the streets, notice the men employed by the great express companies; you will find them young. The laborers, the "long­ shoremen, fhe men employed at the fer­ ries are also mostly young. Go into stores; nine out of ten of the salesmen are young. The hotel clerks are young, and so for the most part are the barkeepers. Doctors say that these latter seldom get beyond 50. Constant nipping undel-mines their health; and hotel men, too, as a class, do not live long, though there are nota­ ble exceptions. This absence of elderly men is to a stranger a notable feature of New York, and it would be interest-1 ing to know its cause. Is it that the conditions of life here are exceptionally exhausting, and that, except in the comparatively-rare cases where circum­ stances or constitution are especially favorable, only a low average of age is attained ? or is it that hundreds of men emigrate hence after a few years to set­ tle in other parts of the country, re­ turning, perhaps, at 40 to places whence they came at 20? It is notorious that Parisians are for the most part not born in Paris, and probably but a limited number of people in this city to-day were born in it. The infant mortality is, we know, enormous, but how about the mortality between 40 and 50? It would be interesting to learn if that l>e abnormally large as compared with, other places; and, if so, what is the pre­ vailing cause of death. Very instructive" tables were published in England some years ago showing the average of life among different vocations. > It is be­ lieved by many that brokers and others in business life live here, as there, a much shorter time than professional men. Thoroughly-trustworthy data on this point would would be received with great interest.--New York Times. THE curious fact has been disclosed that women are extensive holders of bank shares in New York. The Bank of Commerce has 1,829 shareholders, and 778 women hold more than one- fourth of its $5,000,000 capital stock. The oldest bank in the State is the Bank of New York Banking Associa­ tion, 10,270 of whose 20.000 shares are held bv 247 women, fifty-two trustees of estates* and nineteen charitable institu­ tions. It is the popular belief that the stock of the great banks are held al­ most exclusively by men of immense wealth, but the* facts concerning these two powerful New York wholly against that theory. released. The county, failing to re- • j cover the amount from Hovev, sued the ; j bond«meh, and the suit has beeu drag- ? | ging along in court to this term. The • Couuty Board "has now voted to suspend further proceedings and charge up the loss. CHICAGO Inter Ocean: Mary Morris, \t the 14-year-old girl who was arrested , by Lieut. Scliaack, of Chicago Avenue Station, for breaking into J. J. Mc- j111 j Evoy's apartments at No. 109 North j 1 Clark street and stealing $480 worth of jewelry and other articles, proves to have been an industrious thief. She ; resided with her parents in the base­ ment of No. 136 Erie street, and some of McEvoy'8 property was fonnd in their possession as well as 011 the girl. A search of the Morris premises revealed about $1,000 woiih t»f oihti propeicy,. . including everything, as the detectives expressed it, from a war map of Egypt : to a wax doll. Among the property re­ covered were five canaries in cages, four mantel clocks, a hammock, a finter, an oil-stove, a wax doll, watches, rings, bracelets, a doll-cradle, a camp-rocker, a plush bonnet, hats, clothing of all kinds and innumerable bits of jewelry. • A SPRINGFIELD letter says: The fair season of 1882 has opened anspieiously, and the fairs held up to this time have, according to all reports, been well pa­ tronized by exhibitors and visitors. The success of these fairs depends largely . upon the results of the harvest, and, if crops are good, the agricultural 1 classes, who believe in combining in­ struction with recreation, generally at­ tend those fairs which are most con­ venient of access to*them. This year the abundant crop of wheat, oats, rye, barley, etc., has provided the farmers of Illinois not only with the means for traveling and incidental expenses, but also for the purchase of improved stock, machinery and ofher commodities ex­ hibited at the county and State fairs. ' It is not surprising, therefore, that breeders of line stock and m;mufaQtur- ers of agricultural® implements who have made the rounds of the fairs al­ ready held report a very active demand from the farmers for their stock is . frwle. - _ -- - . .... -- . , Uader the CirannstaMpk * - i A citizen who received a telegram lo meet a friend from the western part of the State at the depot was there oil time, and, after the greeting, said to him: "Now well get on the oar and go right up to the house." "But you are not keeping house?" "No; I'm boarding at the place." ^ "Then I cant go." "Can't? What's the trooblot* "No; under the circumstances I should not like to eat dinner with you.* "Wlwat circumstances?" "Well, Trover's present wife, used to be my wife. We didnt exactly agree, and she got a divorce and came down here and married him." "Why, that's nothing. Such a trifle as that wouldn't stop me." "Yes, I know; but I'd rather not 30. I've applied for a divorce from the wife I married after this one left me, and she's in town, too, and if I should meet ihe pair up there I dont Wlieve I could eat half a meal--anally I ovutdair-** Detroit Fret Frets. J.' i iiuiI. v Ai A j*.M. ... .MAfcj > .&• . ..••.y.&L. ..'rA , ^